{"id":3636,"date":"2020-03-27T22:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T22:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2020-03-27T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T22:59:30","slug":"covid-19-youtube-launches-online-music-festival-featuring-simi-timi-dakolo-reekado-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: YouTube Launches Online Music Festival Featuring Simi, Timi Dakolo, Reekado Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YouTube, <span class=\"st\">American online video-sharing platform, has launched a \u2018Stay Home #With Me\u2019 campaign amid the coronavirus crisis across the globe.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addy Awofisayo, content partnership manager for YouTube Africa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the campaign will kickoff with an online music festival on March 28 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>Awofisayo said the initiative followed ongoing measures to restrict large gatherings across the globe and emphasis on social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the music festival would afford fans the opportunity of watching several artists including A\u1e63a, Simi and Seyi Shay perform live on their respective YouTube channels from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Others, he said, include Reekado Banks, Broda Shagi and Timi Dakolo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past decade YouTubers have created videos such as Cook with Me, Study with Me, Read with Me, Workout with Me, Meditate with Me, and so on. So the concept of this online music festival is organically in line with what viewers know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stay Home #With Me online music festival seeks to support the well-being of our community, who are increasingly enduring this disease in isolation \u2013 a state that can affect people\u2019s mental, emotional and spiritual health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Asa had earlier announced that her <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/stay-home-and-sing-with-me-asa-announces-e-concert-amid-coronavirus-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>e-concert would hold on Youtube<\/strong><\/a> on Sunday, March 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TheCable Lifestyle had earlier reported how the pandemic had <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/femi-kuti-asa-sinach-how-coronavirus-is-affecting-events-by-nigerian-music-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>grounded several music events<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 resulting in their postponements and cancellation in some cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube, American online video-sharing platform, has launched a \u2018Stay Home #With Me\u2019 campaign amid the coronavirus crisis across the globe. Addy Awofisayo, content partnership manager for YouTube Africa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the campaign will kickoff with an online music festival on March 28 and 29. Awofisayo said the initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2419,2426,2425],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-covid-19","tag-stay-home-with-me-campaign","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}